George R. R. Martin Re-Releasing Children's Book Set in Westeros

Author George R. R. Martin is re-releasing his 1980 children's book The Ice Dragon which is set in his A Song of Ice and Fire universe. Finally, a family-friendly way to convince your mom that it's okay to watch Game of Thrones.

The book will feature 30 all-new illustrations from acclaimed artist Luis Royo. Yvonne Gilbert provided the illustrations for the original 1980 edition.

The Ice Dragon cover by Luis Royo

The Westeros-set children's book follows a story that Old Nan would tell to the Stark children. The story goes a little something like this:

"Adara liked the winter best of all, for when the world grew cold the ice dragon came. The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land. But Adara was not afraid. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone, even the Old Ones, could remember.

Adara could not remember the first time she had seen the ice dragon. It seemed that it had always been in her life, glimpsed from afar as she played in the frigid snow long after the other children had fled the cold. In her fourth year she touched it, and in her fifth year she rode upon its broad, chilled back for the first time. Then, in her seventh year, on a calm summer day, fiery dragons from the North swooped down upon the peaceful farm that was Adara’s home. And only a winter child - and the ice dragon who loved her - could save her world from utter destruction."

Gaze upon Royo's beautiful wraparound cover (via Tor.com), which will only be available for the first edition of the re-release:

And here are some additional pages of artwork from the upcoming re-release of The Ice Dragon: